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he top abortion provider in northern New England claimed in a virtual press conference last week that a projected deficit in revenue will require “significant financial support to continue offering its lifesaving health care services.” Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), which provides abortions and contraceptives in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, painted a grim picture of its financial status, explaining in an accompanying press release that the organization is “facing a projected financial deficit of $8.6 million over the next three years,” a situation that may require it to “change how and where it offers services.” PPNNE’s spokespersons...

On Tuesday, a few hours after Vice President Kamala Harris revealed she’d picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, the conservative radio host Erick Erickson posted a video from Walz’s 2022 reelection campaign attacking his military service record. The slickly produced video resembled a professional television news segment, but it came from a Minnesota website called Alpha News, which received a “red” unreliable rating from media watchdog NewsGuard because it fails to disclose it was founded by the head of a conservative advocacy group. In the video, an unidentified woman interviews Thomas Behrends, a Minnesota farmer who served...

Former President Trump’s plane was diverted to Billings, Montana, on Friday due to a mechanical issue, a Billings airport official said. The Republican presidential nominee is scheduled to hold a rally in nearby Bozeman, Montana, Friday evening, and is still expected to make it. Bozenman is about a two-hour drive from Billings.

📊 New Swing States polling by @trafalgar_group & @InsiderPolling NEVADA 🟥 Trump: 48% (+3) 🟦 Harris: 45% 🟪 Other: 5% — PENNSYLVANIA 🟥 Trump: 46% (+2) 🟦 Harris: 44% 🟪 Other: 5% — WISCONSIN 🟥 Trump: 49% (+1) 🟦 Harris: 48% 🟪 Other: 2% — NORTH CAROLINA 🟥 Trump: 49% (+4) 🟦 Harris: 45% 🟪 Other: 4% — ARIZONA 🟥 Trump: 48% (+1) 🟦 Harris: 47% 🟪 Other: 4% — MICHIGAN 🟦 Harris: 49% (+2) 🟥 Trump: 47% 🟪 Other: 2% —br,,,> • August 6-8 | 5,600 LV | *IA polls (MI & WI) • *Trafalgar polls (PA, AZ, NV...

A young woman who “transitioned” at 18 years old with help from Planned Parenthood is now suing the abortion giant for irresponsibly providing her with testosterone. The Free Press reported that Cristina Hineman is a plaintiff in the first “detransitioner” lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, suing for medical malpractice. According to Hineman, she had previously been dealing with mental health issues like self-harm, depression, and anxiety, all of which were made worse during the COVID-19 lockdown. She also has autism. YouTubers made her think that changing gender identity was the answer to solve her problems, and she went to Planned Parenthood...

Green Party nominee Jill Stein has been recruiting Palestinian Americans to be her vice presidential running mate as the left-wing presidential candidate looks to exploit the community’s frustrations with Democrats' support for Israel during its war in Gaza. Three potential candidates told NBC News Friday they had multiple conversations with Stein about the job. A spokesperson for a third potential candidate, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, confirmed Stein asked him if he was willing to be considered for the job — before realizing Hammoud is too young to be constitutionally eligible. Stein is planning to announce her...

After JD Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 2022, he and his wife bought a five-bedroom house — their third home — for $1.6 million in Alexandria, Va., not far from the Capitol. Their real estate agent told a local magazine that the buyers paid in cash.When Tim Walz was elected governor of Minnesota four years earlier, his family was living in a heavily mortgaged Cape Cod-style house, with one room rented out, about 90 miles from Minneapolis. After moving into the governor’s mansion, they sold the house for $304,000 — less than the asking price.These real...

Started streaming 13 minutes ago Arizona Rally with Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz

French, who we like to unaffectionately call ‘The State’s Fool”, is a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who can always be counted on to give the worst take possible on any situation, including the whim of whatever demon is whispering into his ear at any given moment. These include announcing he’s pro-‘same-sex marriage, supporting ‘gender-affirming’ care for children, condemning Texas University for banning drag shows, and getting upset when Christians call chemical castration of children “abusive.” Despite this, he still insists he’s a “conservative” and explains that while he doesn’t prefer Walz, who is quite possibly the most radical Governor in...

Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St Paul, MN, is a trainwreck of a congregation. Led by impastor Jen Rome, they are an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) congregation that exemplifies all the most heretical parts of the denomination. Notably, a recent article by RNS identified this as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (who is Kamala Harris’ radical Vice President pick) denomination and parish. The church, which checks off all the usual pro-choice/ pro-LGBTQ boxes, uses the “Inclusive Bible” for all scripture readings and say they are committed to: * Antiracism work, de-centering whiteness, and making reparations for race violence * LGBTQIA+...

The U.S. unemployment rate has drifted upward over the past year, fueling recession concerns. The unemployment insurance program buckled during the Covid-19 pandemic under a deluge of claims. Experts say the system for unemployment benefits is ill equipped to handle the next economic downturn. Renewed fears of a U.S. recession have put a spotlight on unemployment. However, the system that workers rely on to collect unemployment benefits is at risk of buckling — as it did during the Covid-19 pandemic — if there’s another economic downturn, experts say. “It absolutely isn’t” ready for the next recession, said Michele Evermore, senior...

* The 8th Circuit officially blocked the SAVE student-loan repayment plan in its entirety. * It replaces its temporary stay on the plan from July, which paused cheaper payments and debt relief. * Enrolled borrowers will likely be in limbo for long as the legal process progresses.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is ready to put his “political machine” behind former President Donald Trump in Georgia, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Graham told Fox News’s Hannity Thursday night that he attended a fundraiser in Atlanta on Wednesday, where Kemp vowed to aid Trump in the Peach State against Vice President Kamala Harris. “When [Kemp] spoke, the first thing out of his mouth, he looked at everybody in the room and said, ‘I want Donald Trump to win Georgia. I’m all in for Donald Trump. I’m going to give him my political machine,'” Graham recounted “I’ve got a...

Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news service on Wednesday reported that Ukrainians who live in Minnesota are pleased with the “firm pro-Ukrainian stance” of Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is currently embroiled in a scandal due to exaggerating his military service for political gain after being tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.Ukrinform’s article was built around an interview with Luda Anastazievsky, who chairs the Ukrainian American Advocacy Committee of Minnesota. Anastazievsky said she met Walz at a rally in St. Paul shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and was favorably impressed by his words of devotion to the...

The 17thAugust 9, 2024 | Sundance Machiavelli said,“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.When our founders created the system of government for our constitutional republic, they built in layers of protection from federal control over the lives of people in...

HOUSTON, Aug. 6—Newly-released undercover footage, which Planned Parenthood sought to block for eight years, shows the organization’s Houston, TX branch describing delivering late-term fetuses intact and alive and mutilating the bodies afterwards to cover up violations of the federal partial-birth abortion law, in conversations about selling fetal body parts. In the footage of two conversations filmed at the National Abortion Federation’s 2015 commercial trade show, undercover reporters posing as laboratory wholesalers speak with Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine, the Chief Medical Officer of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, and Tram Nguyen, RN, the branch’s Vice President of Abortion Access. In the second conversation,...

HarvestR is developing a range of vaccines, each designed to control a different disease that affects a particular crop.A new “vaccine” is being developed to protect fruit and vegetables from rot. Over a third of all fresh produce globally – 1.3 billion tons, an estimated $940 billion of crops — ends up as waste after it’s harvested. One reason for postharvest loss is crop diseases (fungal pathogens). Every year, farmers spend $17 billion on fungicides. They also treat crops with chemicals to prolong their shelf life after harvest. Some additionally use biological solutions or grow genetically modified crops. But these...

Mimicry of intelligence isn't intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn't intelligent.The mythology of Technology has a special altar for AI, artificial intelligence, which is reverently worshiped as the source of astonishing cost reductions (as human labor is replaced by AI) and the limitless expansion of consumption and profits. AI is the blissful perfection of technology's natural advance to ever greater powers.The consensus holds that the advance of AI will lead to a utopia of essentially limitless control of Nature and a cornucopia of leisure and abundance.If we pull aside the mythology's curtain, we find...

HOUSTON, Aug. 8— Newly-released undercover footage, which Planned Parenthood sought to block for eight years, shows the organization’s Houston, TX branch describing delivering late-term fetuses intact and alive and mutilating the bodies afterwards to cover up violations of the federal partial-birth abortion law, in conversations about selling fetal body parts. In the footage of two conversations filmed at the National Abortion Federation’s 2015 commercial trade show, undercover reporters posing as laboratory wholesalers speak with Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine, the Chief Medical Officer of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, and Tram Nguyen, RN, the branch’s Vice President of Abortion Access. In the first...

Tim Walz' "Mind Your Own Damn Business" line at his Philly debut sent Democrats and the media -- but I repeat myself -- into paroxysms of delight. It's about to backfire on all of them, including Kamala Harris, whose vetting skills seem on par with her current boss. Well, supposed current boss, anyway.We've certainly covered the Tim Walz Happy Neighborly Not-At-All-Fascist COVID Snitch Line, as have Power Line and other Minnesota and ex-pat writers. However, so far the mainstream media and major political figures haven't said too much about Walz' Stasi-esque enforcement mechanism during the pandemic. Yesterday, Ron DeSantis spoke...